Gran Turismo Series

The 2019 season of the GT Sport FIA Online Championship was action-packed and full of drama and controversy. Across six live events we saw some amazing highs and some disheartening lows, but if you tuned in to watch you were far from alone.

Kazunori Yamauchi’s opening presentation at the GT Sport World Tour Sydney event has revealed some extraordinary numbers for the game. Speaking to players, the media, and the crowd inside the Big Top at Luna Sport, the series’ creator spoke of the dedication of the game’s fans.

If you need any more convincing that live racing esports is gaining momentum, here’s something for you: public tickets for Gran Turismo’s opening World Tour event of 2020 — the series’ first major event in Australia — have nearly sold out.

It’s back to Japanese shores for the next two weeks in the GT Sport time trials, as you’ll face a tricky challenge on two compact circuits.

Greetings from Sydney!

It barely seems like three months since we were all in Monaco, watching Mikail Hizal lay waste to the best drivers in the world, but here we are.

You’ll get to visit some of motorsport’s oldest venues in this week’s GT Sport Daily Races, as well as somewhere a good deal more virtual.

This week’s GT Sport Daily Races include an old, old favorite, and a couple of events showing off the game’s post-release tracks — both fictional and real.

The GT Sport time trials for the next fortnight have a rather European focus, and emphasize two different driving techniques at the opposite end of the scales of speed.

Players flicking on their PS4 consoles this morning will find a small GT Sport update waiting for them. As announced at rather short notice yesterday, update 1.55 is here.

Just when we were starting to get worried that there’d be a skipped month in the GT Sport update scheduling, Polyphony Digital has announced that there’s an update coming along this week.

Some GT Sport players are experiencing a rather unusual bug right now affecting one of the key ‘microreward’ mechanisms in the game. The issue affects the Daily Workout — also known as the Driving Marathon due to the 26.2-mile distance requirement — and prevents players gaining prize cars via this process.

You’ll be skipping between three continents in this week’s GT Sport Daily Races, with a couple of nods back to Gran Turismo of old.

It’s time to mark your calendars and start your virtual engines, the GT Sport World Tour is back!

Keeping it on the island will be the key to this week’s three GT Sport Daily Races. The new set of events all pose a similar challenge, whereby a loss of control is likely to be race-ending.

This week’s GT Sport time trials head to a pair of Japanese tracks in the name of proving that power is nothing without control…

Following a road car combo in BMW’s latest addition to GT Sport, the Weekly Race Series (WRS) is featuring back to back BMWs, with the Z4 GT3 at an Original Circuit.

There’s a certain sibilance surrounding the circuits in this week’s set of Sport Mode sprints. The new selection of three races features some friends from right back when GT Sport launched in October 2017. That’s most true about Race B and Race C. Both combinations are among those we might have seen even back in the closed Beta, getting on for almost three years ago.

Details have just slipped out regarding the first Gran Turismo World Tour of the 2020 FIA-Certified Online Championships. For the first time ever, the World Tour will visit Australia, with the event scheduled for February 14-16 in Sydney.

Secretive German performance car brand Isdera has revealed a slightly unexpected piece of information: it’s getting back into the world of gaming.